понедельник, 5 марта 2012 г.

FBI investigating ads offering Maine Indian scalps

The FBI is trying to find the person who posted online advertisements saying he had two-century-old "Maine Indian scalps" that he wanted to sell to white people.

The FBI executed a search warrant last month at Yahoo Inc. for information related to two e-mail addresses linked to the Craigslist postings, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Portland.

It is illegal to traffic in Native American remains. Kirk Francis, chief of the Penobscot Indian Nation, had reported the ads to state and federal officials and said he has reason to believe they were real.

The seller offered six scalps and related artifacts from a private …

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